The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-12-21

a teacher who feels that "llte IS real
life is earnest" and that in the great
work of ennobling, purifying, and
elevating the world, the newspaper
Press must ever play an important
part.
THE NEWSPAPER A NECESSITY.
The newspaper is necessity to the
world at large, and to the family cir,
Gle in particular. A house without
newspapers is a desert without an
oasis. The night of ignorance closes
in darkly on such home-a darkness
that can he felt.
! There is no ambition, no progress
! in a household such as this, there is no
expansion. Self revolves around self,
because there is DO outlook into the
great world beyond. The horizon is
limited; the area is narrow and COD
! fined there is no room for thought to
soar, or intellect to expand. There
was period in the world known as
the Dark Ages-a period of decay
and destruction. Civilization perish
ed; ignorance ruled where learning
had once sat enthroned. To the home
without the enlightenment of newspa-
pers the Dark Ages have come again.
THE CHEAPEST AND BEST EDUCATOR.
The parent who is derelict in pro
viding good newspaper reading for his
family, fails in a very important duty.
He deprives them of an educator that
costs but little, and that is powerful
auxiliary to the school. In fact, it is
a school of learning itself, and a very
important one, for it combines moral
teaching With that which is intellectual.
1t drops the go"d seed in the youthful
mind that may spring up into the fra
grant flowers of morality and religion,
that will blossom, not only for time,
but for eternity too.
TIE WAY GOLDEN CHAINS ARE
FORGED.
A family who are always surround
ed by the influence of healthy news
paper reading, are generally a we'll
ordered family of observation and in-
telligence. Give the boys and girls
an abundance of good newspapers
bright, instructive, and healthy in
tone, and you forge so many golden
chains to keep them at home, and that
so absorb and satisfy tho mind that it
Graves no unhealthy excitement.
1t is as much the duty of parents to
provide the home with at least one
good newspaper, as it is to provide the
food for the table. The mind needs
providing for, as well as the body.
Every aid to intelligence and morality
should be encouraged, and therefore,
the newspaper should form one of the
elements in home culture. 1t is a
teacher that always comes in an attrac-
tive and pleasing form, even to the
young.
1t is a solace not only to the old,
but it is a genuine pleasure to the
youthful mind. While it delights, it
informs, and while it informs, it in
spires to good, thus proving an inesti-
mable blessing in the family circle,
and an aid to the parent in the duties
be has to perform to his children.
MONEY WELL sPENT-NO ENTER
TA1NMENr COSTS As LITTLE AS
THE NEWSPAPER.
The money spent in providing news
papers for family reading, is money
well-spent. That which is expended
on liquor, tobacco, and luxurious food,
is money squandered for a fieeting and
notwithstanding pleasure. The
newspaper is entertaining, and no en-
tertainment costs so little as this. The
money expended for two visits to the
theatre will procure newspaper for
year.
The newspaper is instructive. II
is cheaper than books and lectures.
and moreover the instruction given is